FALL RIVER — A retired Fall River police lieutenant arrested last week in a domestic dispute in Swansea — where he was accused of kicking a door into his wife and waving his gun around — has been placed on home confinement and GPS monitoring.

Eduardo Raposo, 56, of 5 Kensington Court in Swansea, was released from custody after a brief court hearing Wednesday in Fall River District Court. He will return to court May 27 to be fitted with the GPS device. Judge Gilbert Nadeau also ordered Raposo to avoid drinking alcohol and have no access to firearms.

On May 14, around 9:30 p.m., Swansea police officers responded to a report of domestic violence at Raposo’s home. There, the officers said they saw Raposo’s wife crying hysterically and running down the house’s driveway. She was accompanied by her son, who was armed with a pipe he said he grabbed for self-defense, according to court documents.

Raposo’s wife and her son told police that Raposo, who had been recently out of work on sick leave, was drinking heavily that day. They said Raposo kicked a bathroom door into his wife, causing her to fall to the floor, and then began waving his gun in the air, according to court documents.

While being interviewed, Raposo’s wife begged the police officers not to arrest Raposo, and said several times that she was scared he would lose his pension and shoot himself, according to court documents.

Raposo, a 26-year member of the Fall River Police Department who was most recently assigned to the department’s records division, was arrested and charged with carrying a firearm while intoxicated, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

After learning of Raposo’s arrest, Fall River Police Chief Daniel Racine said he immediately suspended Raposo’s license to carry a firearm and began the process for a termination hearing. However, the Fall River Retirement Board notified Racine on May 15 that Raposo had retired, effective immediately.

Raposo’s arrest last week was the third time in his law enforcement career that he was criminally charged. In January 2013, when he was a uniformed patrol watch commander, Raposo was arrested on drunken driving charges in Swansea. He subsequently admitted to sufficient facts, and was placed on probation for one year.

In September 2005, state police troopers arrested Raposo on indecent exposure, and open and gross lewdness charges at an Interstate 195 rest area in Swansea. A state police trooper alleged that Raposo was masturbating about 100 yards away from two families eating lunch.

However, the open and gross lewdness charge was subsequently dismissed, and Raposo was acquitted of the indecent exposure charge during a June 2006 bench trial in Fall River District Court, according to court records. Raposo returned to duty a few months later, according to Herald News archives.